Tyler, TX Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Tyler, TX - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Tyler, TX moved from $41,230 in May 2024 to $42,650 in May 2025 (+3.4%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Tyler, TX sits +0.3 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Home Health and Personal Care Aides shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Tyler, TX
Home Health and Personal Care Aides publishes $23,980 here versus $35,800 nationally (-33.0%; 5,450metro-area jobs). Next is Retail Salespersons at $28,050 locally versus $35,410 nationally (-20.8%).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$23,980 in Tyler, TX sits 33.0% below the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (5,450 published local jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$28,050 in Tyler, TX sits 20.8% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (3,650 published local jobs).
- General and Operations Managers$84,150 in Tyler, TX sits 20.4% below the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (3,300 published local jobs).
- Registered Nurses$80,340 in Tyler, TX sits 17.6% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (4,430 published local jobs).
Home Health and Personal Care Aides and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Tyler, TX; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 46340 · Tyler, TX $54K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-LOW #392/528
- RPP-LOW 92.2
- OCC-MID 339 occs
- TOP-LEAD Chief Executives · $238K
- EMP-MIX Sales Managers
- TREND-INLINE +0.3 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Southeast-Centra…
- BOOK-FULL 335 rows · May 2025
Read with Southeast-Central Idaho nonmetropolitan area ($29 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers
Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer — not a moving recommendation.
Published-row mean neighbourhood around Tyler, TX
Employment scale inside Tyler, TX's top-pay list
Sales Managers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Tyler, TX's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Sales Managers 410 jobs · $127,030
- 2. Financial Managers 340 jobs · $136,520
- 3. Software Developers 320 jobs · $123,760
- 4. Lawyers 310 jobs · $130,390
- 5. Nurse Practitioners 300 jobs · $132,490
- 6. Pharmacists 280 jobs · $136,790
- 7. Managers, All Other 260 jobs · $122,440
- 8. Physical Therapists 250 jobs · $108,380
- 9. Computer and Information Systems Managers 230 jobs · $150,510
- 10. Physicians, All Other 220 jobs · $182,690
- 11. Marketing Managers 160 jobs · $130,200
- 12. Mechanical Engineers 160 jobs · $106,240
- 13. Physician Assistants 130 jobs · $133,460
- 14. Industrial Production Managers 110 jobs · $118,530
- 15. Dentists, General 100 jobs · $125,990
- 16. Human Resources Managers 100 jobs · $113,260
- 17. Architectural and Engineering Managers 80 jobs · $168,720
- 18. Veterinarians 70 jobs · $120,850
Occupations Tracked
339
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$53,697
employment-weighted, 335 complete rows
Top Salary
$237,880
Chief Executives
Cost of Living
92.2
8% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Tyler, TX
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chief Executives | $237,880 |
| 2 | Physicians, All Other | $182,690 |
| 3 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $168,720 |
| 4 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $150,510 |
| 5 | Pharmacists | $136,790 |
| 6 | Financial Managers | $136,520 |
| 7 | Physician Assistants | $133,460 |
| 8 | Petroleum Engineers | $132,530 |
| 9 | Nurse Practitioners | $132,490 |
| 10 | Lawyers | $130,390 |
| 11 | Marketing Managers | $130,200 |
| 12 | Optometrists | $127,300 |
| 13 | Sales Managers | $127,030 |
| 14 | Dentists, General | $125,990 |
| 15 | Software Developers | $123,760 |
| 16 | Managers, All Other | $122,440 |
| 17 | Purchasing Managers | $121,180 |
| 18 | Veterinarians | $120,850 |
| 19 | Industrial Production Managers | $118,530 |
| 20 | First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives | $117,260 |
| 21 | Electrical Engineers | $113,930 |
| 22 | Human Resources Managers | $113,260 |
| 23 | Data Scientists | $108,780 |
| 24 | Physical Therapists | $108,380 |
| 25 | Mechanical Engineers | $106,240 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Tyler, TX
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $20,880 |
| Bartenders | $21,170 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $22,370 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $22,900 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $23,870 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $23,980 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $24,700 |
| Childcare Workers | $26,050 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $26,370 |
| Bus Drivers, School | $26,780 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in TX
Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.
Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale
Two OEWS peer sets outside TX. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($53,697 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.
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